Tonight's Topic: "Frankly Shocking!"
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One-hundred and ninety-eight years ago, on this date -- March 11th, 1818 -- Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, was first published.
Two years earlier, after running away to France with the (already married) poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary began creating her most famous literary work.
Often considered to be the first Sci-Fi and/or Gothic Ghost novel by many, it took the 19-year-old Mary (1797-1851) just under a year to complete Frankenstein.
So how much do you about Mary Shelley and her famous novel?
Please choose your answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each of the following question.
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++ "Frankly Shocking!" ++
Question #1: What alternative title did Mary Shelley use for her novel?
A. Prometheus Unborn, or
B. The Modern Prometheus, or
C. Prometheus Unbound.
By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written
one of the most famous novels ever published.
Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818,
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
------ Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) -- at the age of 16, Mary eloped to Italy with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who praised ‘the irresistible wildness & sublimity of her feelings’.
Each encouraged the other’s writing, and they married in 1816 after the suicide of Shelley’s wife.
They had several children, of whom only one survived.
A ghost-writing contest on a stormy June night in 1816 inspired Frankenstein, often called the first true work of science-fiction... superficially a Gothic novel....
After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, she returned to London and pursued a very successful writing career as a novelist, biographer and travel writer.
[SOURCE: British Library -- Mary Shelley]
Question
#2: What was
the occasion that prompted Mary to create Frankenstein?Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818,
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
------ Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) -- at the age of 16, Mary eloped to Italy with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who praised ‘the irresistible wildness & sublimity of her feelings’.
Each encouraged the other’s writing, and they married in 1816 after the suicide of Shelley’s wife.
They had several children, of whom only one survived.
A ghost-writing contest on a stormy June night in 1816 inspired Frankenstein, often called the first true work of science-fiction... superficially a Gothic novel....
After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, she returned to London and pursued a very successful writing career as a novelist, biographer and travel writer.
[SOURCE: British Library -- Mary Shelley]
A. After reading "ghost stories" on a rainy afternoon in Geneva with the poet Shelley, their visiting friend Lord Byron challenged each of them to write their own ghost story, or
B. Bored with the older Shelley, Mary wanted to write allegorically about her scandalous behavior -- and her regrets -- for running away (with him), or
C. Since her family had disinherited her and the Shelley refused to marry her, Mary rewrote one of her short stories -- which, luckily, became the very popular novel, Frankenstein.
On a rainy evening in June 1816, they all gathered at the fireside to read aloud Fantasmagoriana, ou Recueil d'histoires d'apparitions de spectres, revenants, fantômes, etc. (1812), a French translation of a German book of ghost stories.
At Byron's suggestion, they each agreed to write a horror story.
Mary wanted to think of a story "which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awake thrilling horror--one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
Question
#3: Despite modern interpetations,
the name "Frankenstein"
actually refers
to the creature and not its creator -- True or False?At Byron's suggestion, they each agreed to write a horror story.
Mary wanted to think of a story "which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awake thrilling horror--one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart."
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
A. True, or
B. False
Next morning, after the poets went off sailing, she started work on
what was to become chapter 4 of Frankenstein, which begins, "It was on
a dreary night of November...."
Encouraged by Percy, Mary developed the little ghost story into a novel, which she finished in May of 1817 at Marlow and published in March 1818.
To those who have not read the book, the name Frankenstein is often associated with the monster rather than its creator.
... Frankenstein and his monster alternately pursue and flee from one another.
Like fragments of a mind in conflict with itself, they represent polar opposites which are not reconciled, and which destroy each other at the end.
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
=================Encouraged by Percy, Mary developed the little ghost story into a novel, which she finished in May of 1817 at Marlow and published in March 1818.
To those who have not read the book, the name Frankenstein is often associated with the monster rather than its creator.
... Frankenstein and his monster alternately pursue and flee from one another.
Like fragments of a mind in conflict with itself, they represent polar opposites which are not reconciled, and which destroy each other at the end.
[SOURCE: Mary Shelley Biography by Andreas Teuber]
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my
refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
The beginning is always today.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.
[Source: Various
citations]Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
The beginning is always today.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created.
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